Episode 1-8 movies are canon, so are the books. The Clone Wars Series and the Rebels Series are canon. Any book after Disney acquired SW are canon. The radio dramas (only created for episodes 4-6) are canon. Nothing else was EVER CANON. None of the books from the Expanded Universe were EVER canon. Disney did not CHANGE the canon, they clarified it. What is canon was always canon, Disney just officially said the books that existed when they bought SW will not be considered canon, but they never were

Episode 1-8 movies are canon, so are the books. The Clone Wars Series and the Rebels Series are canon. Any book after Disney acquired SW are canon. The radio dramas (only created for episodes 4-6) are canon. Nothing else was EVER CANON. None of the books from the Expanded Universe were EVER canon. Disney did not CHANGE the canon, they clarified it. What is canon was always canon, Disney just officially said the books that existed when they bought SW will not be considered canon, but they never were

This is not entirely true. Under the old system there were different levels of canon. I won't go fully into it but basically the EU was considered canon in instances except where it contradicted the films/tv. There was even a team at lucasfilm who was dedicated to maintaining the EU continuity. When they decided to kill off a major character at the beginning of the New Jedi order series they had to get authorization from George Lucas and he had final say alot of things that they did.

All books and comics pre-Disney are now considered legends. All films and TV shows (inculding cartoons) and books\comics post Disney are cannon. Kotor and the mmo based on it are cannon. The old ewoks\droids cartoon I think was excluded from cannon even prior to Disney. This game is not really cannon as there is no backstory, it's more like a official game that uses cannon characters.

So last I heard Disney states everything but films were canon...
Could someone please confirm this.

And does that make this game legends over canon or is this game a stand alone or even canon.

This is leading up to something

Old news. Everything made before Disney acquisition was declared not canon, but the movies and clone wars. Since then, a lot of books, comics, video games and tv shows (rebels) have been released and gained the "Canon" status. A lot of legends stuff is being canonized again. Disney just wanted to make some order and make profit from old and new stuff, related to Star Wars. Very smart move.

This link here should clarify. Basically on April 25th, 2014, Disney declared that only the 6 original saga movies, the 2008 cartoon The Clone Wars, and the comic Darth Maul - Son of Dathomir were the official version of event, aka canon. After that, nearly everything published, with the exception of some things listed in the link as well as mobile games like this one that have no story, is canon.

This game is non-canon, not even in the sense of legends. In this game you can have Grand Admiral Thrawn fight Darth Sion, who died thousands of years before Thrawn was even born. You can also have Darth Sideos and Mace Windu fight together, which would make no sense.

Anyways, they're all figures on a table even in the game, so it's not like any events are being shaped.

This game is non-canon, not even in the sense of legends. In this game you can have Grand Admiral Thrawn fight Darth Sion, who died thousands of years before Thrawn was even born. You can also have Darth Sideos and Mace Windu fight together, which would make no sense.

Anyways, they're all figures on a table even in the game, so it's not like any events are being shaped.

Yep. The game is a holotable simulation, featuring legendary characters from the star wars universe. That is why they are able to bring in characters from Legends stuff - their existence in GoH doesn't confirm their existence in Star Wars cannon. It would be like saying Mario was a real person because we have games with him in them. Just because someone is in this game doesn't mean they really existed in the Star Wars universe.

Darthpedro, wanting continuity and being canon are totally different things. George Lucas gave people permission to write stories about older Luke, Han, Leia, etc., but those books were never canon. GL said so quite clearly when the first books came out. He always had reserved the right to make more movies and disregard the books. He didn't do so, but he clearly said so

So bottom line would be that Disney have the right to accept anything they want and if later they decide to accept KOTOR as cannon to enrich their story line and fill holes that have been left open in the current Disney universe or fill them as they see fit... or even fill them at all.

So @EdSolo if Disney were to bring for example the sith triuphant into Star Wars episode 9 following on from the last Jedi it would make their cannon appearance in this era and not the EU

Before anyone goes nuts yes I did re read and the fallout Disney would get unless they backed themselves up with an immense story of this happening would result in a lot of fans going to another franchise.

But again I would like to contradict some of what you said with holocrons, there were some training holicrons that true are only seen in legend but role with me here allowed people to train with Old masters and where people had to fight shadows of the past...

However it is a sandbox kinda game allowing us to make teams of our favourite Star Wars characters

This game is non-canon, not even in the sense of legends. In this game you can have Grand Admiral Thrawn fight Darth Sion, who died thousands of years before Thrawn was even born. You can also have Darth Sideos and Mace Windu fight together, which would make no sense.

Anyways, they're all figures on a table even in the game, so it's not like any events are being shaped.

Yep. The game is a holotable simulation, featuring legendary characters from the star wars universe. That is why they are able to bring in characters from Legends stuff - their existence in GoH doesn't confirm their existence in Star Wars cannon. It would be like saying Mario was a real person because we have games with him in them. Just because someone is in this game doesn't mean they really existed in the Star Wars universe.

Wait what? Mario isn't a real person? So who was that bloke wearing plumbers overalls running at me on the street throwing fireballs at me shouting yahoooo?

I've seen many fake claims on these forums but this topic is really taking 1st place.
To put it simply: Canon is truth. It represents past/present/future events that are considered true. Just for reference, not starting a holy war here, bible is the best explanation of canon in real life.
So, who decides what is real in a fictional universe? In theory, the rightsholder, Didney worl, does. In reality, those rights have changed hands, and that is where it gets a bit messy. Lucasarts sold the rights to Bioware, so TOR was created. After Disney bought the franchise from Lucasarts, they are legally not allowed to cut TOR off. Because the law states the production rights cannot be revoked as long as the project is in active development. And that creates 2 points of view. In legal terms, everything that comes out of TOR is canon, because they tied themselves in the storyline during Lucasarts era. That is how KOTOR was also confirmed to be canon. In reality, Disney can just say "no this is not canon, it is my story and I decide who is player one" with a malicious 15 year old grin and it would be true on all accounts.
Diving further into the discussion, anything can be canon provided it follows one simple rule: no events claimed to be canon can negate other events that already are canon. So you cannot have Vader and Anakin dance-off. You could make Vader fight an Anakin holocron, so there are loopholes that make pretty much anything possible, but you get the idea.
So, is this game canon? No, but not because of the reasons stated above. Once again, Canon is truth. This game brings nothing new to the storyline, so there is nothing canonical to add. It is a sandbox game that simply uses canon-related material for the games. The only reason the word canon is used for this game is that CG are obligated to use canon material for the game unless Disney says otherwise. And back to legal terms, I already explained above why CG can use Nihilus, Traya, HK and so forth even with Disney making them non-canon.
Hope this clears any confusion.

@LaksonVell You have answered what I was trying to ask I know it wasn’t worded correctly but my main aim was to understand the cross over or TOR and tv and film based lore .

I am glad that the game is set up like it is because although some are hard to get it allows me to create my favourite lore based teams that were in the same era and see how they work against what is another era.